Word: paralleling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cloudy Past. Reviewing the diplomatic failures which preceded World War II, the Times noted a parallel between American isolationism, Russia's withdrawal into nationalism and Britain's desire to be left alone. Basically. Britain had always relied on playing one European nation against another, a policy now "irrevocably destroyed by the inexorable march of military and economic developments toward larger and more complex forms of organization...
...fight for more-and more profitable-business. Both companies have important technological improvements which they have been slow to push, pending a settlement of their competitive (and labor) problems. Meanwhile the release of some of the two companies' duplicating equipment could advance the war effort. If all their parallel wires were torn down, for example, it might release as much as 10,000 tons of badly needed copper...
...week Nat Gubbins speaks for the British man-in-the-street better than the British man-in-the-street can speak for himself. Dry-eyed sentimentalist, sly humorist, casual reformer, recorder of mutton-headed remarks, he has become the most widely read of British columnists. He has no U.S. parallel. His column, "Sitting On The Fence," is a kind-of literary comic strip, in which various permanent characters comment obliquely or directly on the affairs...
...carefully watched the events in French North Africa since the Allied landing. In Washington a story circulated that Colonel Beigbeder had come to lay the foundations of a "Free Spain" in case the Nazis invaded his home country. If he succeeded, and the Nazis did take over Spain, the parallel with French North Africa would be complete...
...Censorship "without a parallel anywhere in the world. . . . Only rarely was I permitted to send anything except the bare text of official announcements...